Language and literacy assessment
When you know where you start, you can plan where to go.
We use a variety of formal and informal assessments to gain a good picture of where your child is, so we can help them move forward. We also can provide support for ADHD and ASD diagnosis with appropriate screening assessments
Speech Skills
Sometimes they know what they want to say, but it just doesn’t come out right.
We work with motor speech, articulation and phonological disorders.
Chris has experience with both childhood apraxia of speech and cleft lip and palate
Language Skills
Understanding information, grammar, word order, vocabulary building, and using full sentences all fall in to the language heading
Reading and writing
We depend on being able to read and write for everyday tasks for our whole lives. Becoming literate is for everyone 5 to 100 years.
Teens and Adults working towards employment are also Able to benefit from literacy support
The SLP and Teacher are both trained in the Sounds-Write Synthetic Phonics program
Individual tutoring
Our registered teacher can work on primary literacy and maths with your child. She also supports some of the of the children on NDIS plans as an Allied health assistant for the SLP
Group services
Group services enable social learning and support at a reduced individual cost.
These groups focus on growth mindset, having a safe space to interact and socialise, and work on social tasks such as playing games, managing turn taking and following directions to make craft.
Kids have a heap of fun and learn together.
Decodable books and other resources
Cracking the code of English for 25% of children requires a more structured and explicit program than just reading to them. These texts reduce the number of different sounds in each book so that children are only practising sounds they have already learnt.
NO GUESSING, JUST READING
Books are available to view and order on request. They usually take less than a week to arrive.
Free local delivery
Professional support
Chris is able to provide professional development to educators on language, speech and literacy. She loves providing PD.
How we work
Speech pathology sessions are booked in a block model. Most children do 1-2 blocks and then have a change of service or a break.
We highly encourage weekly therapy and then a break compared to fortnightly therapy.
There is no guarantee of keeping the same appointment time for more than a term, though we try to accomodate as much as possible.
Please note that there are very few outside school hours sessions. This means that clients attending those sessions will likely be asked to take a different session time or service option for the next term.
If a current client chooses to take a term off, they will be added to the top of the waitlist for booking into the next block.
Expectations
We expect clients and their families to work with us and take on the following responsibilities
- Creating goals for each block based on their needs and NDIS plans
- Work together towards those goals – you will be asked to complete homework to support your therapy goals. This may look like playing a game, or using a specific type of question or sentence repeatedly, practising a speech sound or doing listening or writing tasks.
- Attendance. We reserve that time for you and your needs for the block. Cancellation fees apply because it is often difficult to fill an appointment. If you do not attend more than 70% of the appointments in a block, you will not be getting the most out of your service. We are happy to do parent coaching / telehealth sessions in lieu of face to face appointments.
You may be offered more than one appointment per week, or a hybrid model with the SLP and AHA together